The Future of Parking

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With electric vehicles, a parking space is suddenly going to become a much more valuable asset because it's going to be the place where you charge your car as well. I'm signing an executive order, setting out a target of 50% of all passenger vehicles sold by 2030 will be electric. People buy electric vehicles when they have a place to charge them at home. In older neighborhoods like Seattle's Central District, residents could be stuck on roads with no outlet.

In our quest to accommodate parked cars, we’ve paved over downtowns, polluted the planet, and made it near impossible to get anywhere without driving. Slate’s Henry Grabar explains Big Parking — and how electric cars might offer an opportunity to finally try something new.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Michael Raphael, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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